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Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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employment as waiters in twenty five Spanish towns. Discrimination against the older waiters, corresponded to the highest rates …In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about … ever recorded anywhere, by written tests, for racial discrimination. …
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consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment provision of the 1996 Disability Discrimination …, the DDA has had no impact on the employment rate of disabled people or possibly worsened it. Possible reasons for this are …
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This paper uses microdata from the 1991 and 2001 Population Censuses to examine differences in the employment … employment position of the main ethnic minority groups changed between the two Census dates and secondly, a detailed examination … of employment amongst ethnic groups in 2001. In relative terms, it is found that there was an improvement in the …
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Carefully-matched pairs of written job applications were made to test for age discrimination in hiring. A twenty … forty-seven, inquired about employment as waiters; women aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired about employment in … retail sales. The rate of net discrimination against the older graduate, and against the older waiters in their London …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority … (a more established migrant group) suffering less discrimination than Chinese and Middle Easterners (who have typically …
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This paper focuses on estimating the magnitude of any potential weight discrimination by examining whether obese job … possible form of labor market discrimination is obese women. Despite making more job applications and engaging more in job … training programs, we find some indications that they experienced worse (or at best similar) employment outcomes than healthy …
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employment as waiters in twenty four French towns. The rate of net discrimination found against the older French waiter …In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about …, corresponds to the highest rates ever recorded anywhere, by written tests, for racial discrimination. Discrimination was higher in …
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We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …
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